[fossil-users] Timestamps should be in local time.

2011-08-20 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
Timestamps should be recorded in local timezone rather than in UTC. 1. It hurts eyes and brain to see the time in UTC and then calculate it in local time. 2. For forensics. I'll be able to know which timezone I was while committing that change. And we can always calculate the UTC time anyway. And b

Re: [fossil-users] Repo with many "initial" commits

2015-01-27 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
I personally think that "fossil open --empty" is a pretty good strategy to keep multiple projects in the same repository. Cheers. - Vikrant On 27 January 2015 at 03:57, Jim Kalafut wrote: > I have a number of small, disparate projects that I'm moving into > Fossil. I've noticed that "fossil im

Re: [fossil-users] GitHub question. Was: Git-v-Fossil.

2015-03-16 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
>> But, for example fossil can provide some way to connect the stand alone >> repositories and developers in some kind of distributed peer-to-peer network >> and >> to provide some interaction - I don't know - maybe some voting, messaging, >> clone tracking, collaborative environment, pull request

Re: [fossil-users] GitHub question. Was: Git-v-Fossil.

2015-03-16 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
> i, for one, am glad that _our_ Benevolent Dictator behaves like an empathic > human being in public. I second this statement. :-) Cheers. - Vikrant On 14 March 2015 at 18:43, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Graeme Pietersz > wrote: >> >> There is a long and interesting

Re: [fossil-users] Xekri skin: weird dropdowns on timeline page in Opera

2015-03-16 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
The current version of Opera is 28, you should probably update your Browser. You are using a 2 year old version which comes with Presto engine (development of which is now discontinued by Opera), while newer versions use Blink engine. Cheers. - Vikrant On 17 March 2015 at 04:24, Tontyna wrote:

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil security question from a newbie

2015-03-17 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
No, the authentication/authorisation is only to protect if the repository is accessed over a protocol (http, command line etc.), if someone has direct access to the file, they have access to _all_ of the repository data. To protect any file on a USB drive against theft or loss, you'll need to eithe

Re: [fossil-users] Got Ubuntu PPA for fossil-releases up and running

2015-03-19 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
Nice! Btw where can I see the build script that is fed to Launchpad's automated build services? Cheers. - Vikrant On 19 March 2015 at 17:01, Oliver Friedrich wrote: > I hope you don't mind that I got up an Ubuntu PPA for current fossil > releases. This was merely a testing thing for me, to buil

[fossil-users] Introducing Lagerstatte, an open-source hosting service for Fossil repositories

2015-03-30 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
Hello everyone, I've been working on a project named "Lagerstatte", a front-end for Fossil repositories. The browser facing part is written in Ember.js, while server runs a Ruby on Rails application which acts as a JSON endpoint. Access to Fossil database is provided by Stephan's excellent libfoss

Re: [fossil-users] Introducing Lagerstatte, an open-source hosting service for Fossil repositories

2015-03-30 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
Minor grammatical correction in last email: s/Stephan and me/Stephan and I/ On 30 March 2015 at 16:20, Vikrant Chaudhary wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been working on a project named "Lagerstatte", a front-end for > Fossil repositories. The browser facing

Re: [fossil-users] Introducing Lagerstatte, an open-source hosting service for Fossil repositories

2015-03-30 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
>> * Access the Fossil repositories through Git protocol (readonly). > > Intellectually interesting, but, for me, not a selling point as I only use > Git when I have to. There are lots of software and services that support Git out of the box (e.g., CI services, Go's packages, Rust's crates, Ruby's

Re: [fossil-users] Introducing Lagerstatte, an open-source hosting service for Fossil repositories

2015-03-30 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
esults for "lagerstaette" are in German, and in English for "lagerstatte". * Our conclusion: "lagerstaette" when transliterating in German, "lagerstatte" when transliterating in English. * I'm still not 100% sure. Maybe I should roll with "La

Re: [fossil-users] New timeline display options

2015-03-31 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
> That sounds like a valid $0.02 to me. JS/CSS experts: is there such tech > that we could somehow select a vertical graph/branch indicator and have it > highlighted somehow? >From a quick overview of the page, an "onclick" handler on those line and box should do the trick (in draw*() JS functio

Re: [fossil-users] Introducing Lagerstatte, an open-source hosting service for Fossil repositories

2015-04-01 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
> I'm not a German speaker, and I don't know if you care, but I would > vote with Joerg to use "ae" rather than just "a". (Simply ignoring > the umlaut seem just wrong - regardless of Google.) FWIW, the two > dots in "ä" and "ö" derive historically from a small "e" placed above > the letters "a"

Re: [fossil-users] Introducing Lagerstatte, an open-source hosting service for Fossil repositories

2015-04-01 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
> In the actual code or in string constants? If in string constants, why not > use the ISO-8859-1 encoding? Or even Unicode? As long as your software sets > the character set parameter in the HTTP header, this should display > correctly. > > Example: Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 > >

Re: [fossil-users] Introducing Lagerstatte, an open-source hosting service for Fossil repositories

2015-04-01 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
> I'm thinking about how this could be used at my workplace. On some > projects we have shared computers called viewservers ("view" being a > ClearCase term) on which we create our sandboxes (again, CC term). > Switching to Fossil would mean each user getting his or her own copy of > the full repo

Re: [fossil-users] Introducing Lagerstatte, an open-source hosting service for Fossil repositories

2015-04-02 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
>> You are probably thinking about a "shallow clone". > > You'll have to tell me what you mean by those words. Here is the concept in Git: http://stackoverflow.com/q/6941889 > The impression I get is that we're both talking about the local > repository containing things not sync'ed upstream, for

Re: [fossil-users] Introducing Lagerstatte, an open-source hosting service for Fossil repositories

2015-04-03 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
> This may be related to the scaling issue, see the discussion started by > Richard Hipp, entitled "Fossil 2.1: Scaling". Some great ideas by Richard and very useful feature for large repositories (like Matt and Andy have). Though I think his intended goals are slightly different than what I was e

Re: [fossil-users] Introducing Lagerstatte, an open-source hosting service for Fossil repositories

2015-04-03 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
> While I know very little about databases, this sounds a lot like any records > not found in the "local" database would be read from a "remote" database. > And any writes would be to the local database with updates to the remote > being managed by an explicit update procedure. And this would happe

[fossil-users] Migrating from Subversion.

2010-10-19 Thread Vikrant Chaudhary
I'm sorry if this question has been raised before but I couldn't find sufficient content on this over web. Is it possible to convert an Apache Subversion repository into a Fossil repository (yet)? -- -nasa http://vikrant.co.in/ ___ fossil-users mailing